Dr Chris Wever (MBBS, FRANZCP) is a child, adolescent and family psychiatrist. He currently works in private practice in Sydney and the Gold Coast. He has been in Private Practice for the last eight years.

Previously he worked at the Rivendell Unit in Concord, Sydney for 9 years after gaining his specialist qualifications in 1990. During this time he developed a number of treatment programs at the Rivendell unit. He has a particular interest in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in young people yet sees and treats the whole range of child and adolescent problems. For the last three years he worked at Rivendell he was the Inpatient Director of their 26 bed inpatient unit. During the time there also he worked as a consultant to the Department of Juvenile Justice visiting many of their detention centers. He also worked in rural areas one day per fortnight visiting Bathurst and Orange.

Dr Wever has had extensive experience in teaching. He was a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in Sydney, teaching advanced trainees in child psychiatry and also lectured university students from the University of Sydney. He has lectured a broad range of other professionals in child and adolescent psychiatry topics and has been teaching school counselors in a one day workshops “Child Psychiatry for the Non Child Psychiatrist”. He currently is appointed as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Bond University.

Dr Wever is also the author of three books for children. These are: “The Secret Problem”, a book for children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder which won The NSW Mental Health Matters Award; “The School Wobblies”, a book for children with separation anxiety and school refusal and “Full of Beans”, a book for children with attention deficit disorder.